Fear Not!

My Christmas Message

Blessings to you and yours for the Christmas Season and for the Year of Our Lord 2016. Thank you for being part of this virtual community.

Linus Drops His Security Blanket

Here is a short video clip from A Charlie Brown Christmas!NB: at 0:35 seconds, Linus says: “Fear not!” At that moment, Linus drops his blanket. May this story, often repeated (including on this site!), and those words in particular, repeated beyond this story, be comfort enough for each of us…

Whether you regard the Christmas Season as concluding on Christmas Day, Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord, Candlemas, the Sunday following Candlemas, or are Orthodox, or Armenian, and celebrate the Incarnation on another day and see the season differently… in the Southern Hemisphere, and certainly in Aotearoa-New Zealand, this is our go-slow time…